Motivational Quotes

Silence

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

- Abraham Lincoln

Best Quotes about Silence

It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they speak with the accent of natives they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.

Illich, Ivan

You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don't say.

There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.

Voltaire

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Coolidge, Calvin

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly.

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

Silence is never more golden than when you hold it long enough to get all the facts before you speak.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

Hubbard, Kin

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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

John of the Cross, St.

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True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

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It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Beaumont, Francis

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Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads on like a gray vegetation.

Arp, Jean

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Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

Marceau, Marcel

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There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

Smith, Sydney

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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.

Crapsey, Adelaide

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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

Samuel Johnson

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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.

Peter Minard

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Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

Chopra, Deepak

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I went down with the ship but I kept my mouth shut so I didn't drown like the rest of them.

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What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I think from now on I'm going to stick to what she actually does say because I don't have that kind of time.

Katz, Jonathan

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If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

O'Malley, Austin

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

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The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.